Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D
Today I’m sharing a favorite author’s latest horror story, an interesting take on the vampire trope, a horror Western, take a look:
Every wedding guest’s worst nightmare is on repeat in this wild and twisty new horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of So Thirsty and Play Nice.
It’s the picture-perfect wedding weekend: The venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air—and Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She’s excited to celebrate her best friends finally having the big wedding they’ve always wanted, but this is the first time she’s seen her ex-fiancé in months, and he brought a date. Everything feels off, like she stumbled into an alternate universe. But things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom’s charming and single childhood best friend. When they sneak off together, their rendezvous is interrupted by a masked killer terrorizing the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not.
Or is she? She wakes up and it’s the morning of the wedding. She just had the most intense nightmare of her life. Only as the day unfolds, there are some uncanny coincidences that make her question whether it was really a dream, déjà vu, or something more sinister. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she’s stuck in a loop of carnage and terror that she must learn how to escape or else suffer a fate worse than death—being an eternal wedding guest.
Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison. Releases in September 2026 from Berkley. I was so excited to see this cover reveal! Rachel Harrison is a must read author for me, and this book sounds a little different for her. But I have faith, and I’m sure this will be a lot of fun.
From the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence comes a new, genre-bending supernatural horror about a vampire broodmother fighting against her own monstrous descent.
Beatrice is a broodmother: a vampire responsible for nursing newly made fledglings through the first years of their unlife. She nests in an abandoned, isolated warren of office space beneath her patron’s skyscraper, raising two fractious fledglings: Gorgeous―once a heartthrob, now to all appearances a living corpse―who longs for the return of the lover who made him immortal with all the fervor of a rebellious teen, and Fortunata, the scion of Beatrice’s mistress, alien and ambitious in her desires.But when Beatrice decides to take on a third fledgling, the product of an attempted siring gone wrong, teetering between vampiric purity and ghoulish depravity, Beatrice finds herself strained to breaking between the societal and physical demands of her position, her own ravenous hunger, and an obsessive need to discover what’s happening to her―because her body is changing too, transforming her into something even more monstrous. She begins to crave the taste of flesh, something anathema to all vampires, and to swing between desperate hunger and vicious power.
Desperate to master herself once more, Beatrice courts a mortal OBGYN who might be able to unravel the secrets of her unnatural anatomy. But soon their connection threatens the secrecy of her vampiric coven as well as the safety and development of her dependent nurslings… and the humans they stand to slaughter if left to their own devices.
Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling. Releases in October 2026 from St. Martin’s Press. I’ve had some ups and downs with Caitlin Starling’s books, but I swear I am all over this one! This sounds super weird and dark and a very different take on the vampire trope.
The Night Pool is a blood-soaked, page-turning horror set in the Gold Rush West, where three women must battle monsters both human and inhuman to survive–perfect for fans of Alma Katsu’s The Hunger and Victor LaValle’s Lone Women.
The American West is no safe haven for women–least of all in the Gold Rush town of Coloma, California. Not for Clara Tice, the blacksmith’s strange and stubborn daughter. Not for Mei, the healer whose calm presence the makeshift camp for Chinese immigrants contrasts sharply with her brother’s hard-eyed pursuit of riches. And certainly not for Haloke, a Nisenan Shaman’s granddaughter whose native village has been devastated by smallpox, hunger, and the relentless greed of Outsiders.
One night, Clara and Haloke meet at the river’s edge and watch in horror as Clementine Cobb, the town beauty, is lured across the water. Together they witness something terrible in the Night Pool. Soon after, an unseen attacker descends upon the mining men of Coloma, abandoning heartless bodies one-by-one. As the gruesome killings in Coloma threaten to incite further violence, Clara, Haloke, and Mei find themselves unlikely allies–without the gangs, guns, or bravado of the men who claim Coloma’s riches. The three women must work together to confront the evil that menaces them from both monsters and men.
A gripping tale of sisterhood, vengeance, and survival, The Night Pool explores the horrors of greed and lust, and the hidden strength of the most vulnerable among us.
The Night Pool by Lauren Lee Smith. Releases in August 2026 from Blackstone Publishing. I love the Western setting of this story, and I’m hoping the comps of The Hunger and Lone Women are correct. Both of those were five star reads for me!
Milkteeth is going INSTANTLY to my TBR! Also still haven’t read a Caitlin Starling book but maybe this will be the first one?
I thought you might like the sound of Milkteeth;-)
All of these sound like they will be amazing! Thanks for introducing me
I hope we both get to read them!
I can never resist a vampire novel so definitely adding Milkteeth to my TBR, although the flesh longing makes me wander if it’ll be too gruesome for me. Im curious about the last title too. Hope you enjoy them all.
I’m so curious about Milkteeth. It does sound like it has the potential for some gruesomeness!
I love a good time loop!
Me too! I can’t wait to see how she handles it.
The Rachel Harrison book will be a must-read for me! I’ve yet to be disappointed by anything she writes, and I love the sound of this one. Milkteeth sounds so strange but also awesome in so many ways. I’ll be interested to hear more about The Night Pool — a maybe for me right now, but it’s tempting! All great choices!
Rachel Harrison is so solid, I’m not sure she can write a bad book!
A new Caitlin Starling! Gotta get that for my wife (I’m told that most of them definitely wouldn’t be my thing though I have read one of her novellas).
I feel like this one is going to be different from her other books!
I knew when I saw the Harrison cover released this week I’d see it here too. I absolutely love it! Caitlin Starling is hit or miss for me too but since it’s vampires, I gotta give it a try. Great picks this week.
I had to change my post around since the Harrison book just came out this week, but I HAD to feature it, lol.
Kiss Slay Replay sounds awesome! I totally want to read that one. 😀
Her books are always so much fun:-)
A new Rachel Harrison, eh? Even though I’m not into horror, there have been a couple I’d definitely try. And Caitlin Starling…that synopsis sounds might intriguing but idk…the medieval one she came out with last year was something else. I still don’t know what I read lol!
I love Starlings ideas but not always the execution. But I would like to try this one:-)
The western horror grabs me with that historical setting and the scare factor.
I love Western horror, and I hope I get to read it:-)
Ooooh Milkteeth sounds great!
Doesn’t it? I love the cover too:-)
A new Rachel Harrison book is always exciting! And I’m with you, that cover is perfect for the title!
I’m so curious about it, September is going to have some epic releases!
I love the covers and these all sound like gripping page-turners, Tammy:).
Thanks Sarah!
Not to be greedy or anything but I’d really like to read all of these!
Lynn 😀
Me too Lynn! I hope we both read them all:-)
OOoh I vote for the Rachel Harrison book! I loved Sookie’s series.
It’s going to be so good!
Oooh The Night Pool is new to me! And I need it because THOSE COMPS! Also I am VERY excited for the other two, both are on my TBR too!